The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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May 27 - October 2, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps encloses correspondence involving the school, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway Company to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Second…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
May 29, 1914 - June 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Congressman Carter D. Moore to send material concerning the Carlisle Indian School to Jackson Moore.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information to be Sent to Jackson Moore275.76 KB
June 3-12, 1914
C. E. Cahel complains to the Bureau of Indian Affairs that students attending the Hogansburg Indian School were being prevented from applying to the Carlisle Indian School. Cahel claims that Hogansburg school officials refused to sign students'…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint of Refused Applications from the Hogansburg Industrial School308.74 KB
June 4-22, 1914
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that The Report of the Joint Congressional Investigating Committee found that a "large percentage" of the student body have trachoma. Lipps requests that the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Medical Care at School
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Large Percentage of Students Afflicted with Trachoma271.16 KB
June 4, 1914 - June 25, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor. Lipps also forwards how he spent that $100 and requests another $100 under authority 56002.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Expend Funds from Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor Account402.35 KB
June 15-24, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests funds for the fourth quarter of 1914. He later requests that that the request for $1,000 for "Industrial Work and Care of Timber, 1914, (Field Matrons)" be removed.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Funds for 1914 Fourth Quarter284.03 KB
June 15 - August 31, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Elvira Anderson to have her daughter, Melissa Anderson, returned home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home Melissa Anderson1.29 MB
June 22-27, 1914
These materials include a request by W. F. Graham for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by W. F. Graham176.74 KB
June 23-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a resolution regarding the YMCA Middle Atlantic Student Conference of 1914. A delegation of four Carlisle Indian School students attended the conference, and adopted resolutions "for the betterment,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Resolutions from YMCA Middle Atlantic Student Conference214.4 KB
June 24, 1914
These materials include a request by Albert N. Stecher for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by Albert N. Stecher122.14 KB
June 24, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $500 for School Transportation. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Lipps that $500 has been transferred to his account.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request for Funds for Transportation344.74 KB
June 24-29, 1914
Supervisor Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he sold dried bones and old iron to Jacob Shields and asks the Commissioner which account to report the sale under. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Lipps…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sale of Dried Bones and Old Iron179.18 KB
June 26, 1914 - July 7, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps encloses a letter from former Superintendent Moses Friedman. Lipps explains that he has been sending Friedman claims and vouchers to sign from when Friedman was still in charge of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Problems with Sending Vouchers to former Superintendent Moses Friedman346.92 KB
July 2, 1914 - September 3, 1915
Supervisor Oscar H. Lipps requests authorization to spend funds for fiscal years 1915 and 1916 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which will be used for dairy cow pasturage and a skating rink.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Continue Henderson Farm Lease374.49 KB
July 6-15, 1914
Former Carlisle Indian School student Harry West asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to appoint him as the Mechanical Drawing Teacher at the school. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs West that the position has been…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Teachers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Mechanical Drawing Teacher Position Abolished273.97 KB
July 9, 1914
Annie Fuller recommends that Commissioner Cato Sells appoints Dr. Thomas Jessie Jones as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School. Sells informs Fuller that he will consider Jones.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendation of Thomas Jones as Superintendent406.13 KB
July 10-11, 1914
These materials include a request by Representative Philip P. Campbell for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by Philip P. Campbell139.51 KB
July 11-20, 1914
Benjamin M. Connelly asks Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt if there is a vacancy in the bandmaster position at the Carlisle Indian School because his friend, Harry O. Hickernell, would like to apply if such a vacancy exists…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Musical Instructor Position Abolished503.27 KB
July 13, 1914 - August 1, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the account of Levi Clute. He had requested that his funds be transferred to the Superintendent of the New York Agency.
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View Document: Deposit Transfer of Levi Clute443.07 KB
July 18, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the cancellation of a check to Harry Bonser.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cancellation of Check to Harry Bonser161.6 KB
July 20, 1914 - September 28, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the account of Herbert Sickles, which was closed and the funds forfeited to the Carlisle Indian School's Emergency Fund upon Sickles' departure.
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View Document: Inquiry into Account of Herbert Sickles800.52 KB
July 21, 1914 - September 28, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to pay irregular student labor for harvesting grain planted at the Carlisle Indian School which exceeded the previous fiscal authorization.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Authorization to Pay Students for Extra Harvesting Labor1.2 MB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 for emergency supplies until contract supplies arrive.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Fiscal Request to Pay for Emergency Supplies131.05 KB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $100.00 "for incidental expenses" relating to "the administration of the Carlisle Indian School."
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Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Fiscal Request to Pay for Incidental Expenses145.81 KB
July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 "for engraving, mounting, and making plates and plats of Indian art designs for catalogue and magazine work."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Pay for Materials to Reproduce Indian Art Designs135.71 KB